Omens & Oracles
Omens & Oracles
PredictionX Podcast
The PredictionX Podcast brings together leading scholars to explore one of humanity’s oldest and most urgent questions: how do we predict the future? Through conversations spanning artificial intelligence, climate science, astronomy, philosophy, and history, the series traces how humans have tried to anticipate uncertainty and what those efforts reveal about the world we are building today.
Coming Soon - Stephanie Dick
Prediction, Meaning, and the Myth of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is often framed as a technology of the future. But according to historian of science and technology Stephanie Dick, AI is also a mirror–reflecting back our assumptions about intelligence, labor, prediction, and what it means to be human.
Additional Resources:
-
"After Intelligence" in the Harvard Data Science Review, discussed in the episode
Coming Soon - Lord Martin Rees
The Ethics of the Future: Why Knowing Isn’t Enough in the Age of AI
A conversation with Martin Rees and Alyssa Goodman on the gap between what science makes possible–and what we choose to do. From climate to AI, our future depends on us.
Additional Resources:
-
On the Future discussed in the episode
Climate Change and Energy with Daniel Kammen
In this conversation, Professor Daniel Kammen of UC Berkeley talks to Professor Alyssa Goodman about prediction and climate change simulations.
Additional Resources: